Competing Quotes

• I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Running, Air, Feelings

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Heart, Testing Yourself, Defeat

  "The Art of Peace" by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens, 1992.

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• The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

  Steve Young

  Motivational, Change, Sports

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• When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

  Dick Fosbury

  Athlete, Levels, Percent

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• Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Fun, Underdog

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• No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

  Victoria Principal

  Who I Am, Work Harder, Not Interested

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• In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

  Jan Egeland

  Attention, World, Emergencies

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Competition, Healthy, Tests

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Sports, Dream, Winner

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Mind, Ambitious

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• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Struggle, Use

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• In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Beauty, Interviews, Chaps

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• I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

  Amanda Bynes

  Class, People, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Two Sides, Skating

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• Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

  Ayrton Senna

  Blood, Racing, Standing Out

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• All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Firsts, Degenerates

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• Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, July

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• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Different, Aspect

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Country, Athlete

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• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

  Herman Kahn

  Healthy, Resources, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.34, Lexington Books

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• I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

  Kirk Hammett

  Fall, Player, Race

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• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

  Dennis Brown

  Artist, Thinking, Views

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